Join the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and the Jamestown Foundation for a discussion with Dr. Samantha Hoffman on her newly published book China’s Mobilization State.
The Chinese Communist Party is working to strengthen its political power and to replace the existing global order. Both are two expressions of the same project. The same infrastructure that monitors and controls Chinese society also reaches into the critical systems of countries that have never assessed what that access enables — power grids, financial networks, data pipelines, governance platforms. That embeddedness is not incidental. Such embeddedness is the mechanism through which the Party extends political leverage, shapes decisions, and positions itself to influence outcomes in boardrooms, universities, governments, and ultimately in any conflict over the future of Taiwan. Understanding how those pieces connect is the prerequisite for predicting the Party’s decision-making, recognizing coercion before it lands, and understanding what a world shaped by this system’s success would actually look like. Western analysts keep treating the pieces as separate problems. This book explains why they are not, and what is at stake if that mistake persists.
About the author
Dr. Samantha Hoffman is the founder and managing director of ANS Analytics LLC. She is an analyst with over ten years of experience and a proven track record for producing groundbreaking open-source research on Chinese politics and national security strategy. Her work has shaped global approaches to understanding challenges posed by the Chinese party-state’s harnessing of technology for security and propaganda purposes.
Dr. Hoffman is an adviser to the UK-based Coalition on Secure Technology (CIM-Coalition) and a Senior Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation. She has publicly testified in the United States Congress, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, and the European Parliament. She has been quoted in international media, including in outlets such as the BBC, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and The Guardian.
Dr. Hoffman holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Nottingham (2017), an MSc in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford (2011), a BA in International Affairs from Florida State University (2010), and a BA in Chinese Language and Culture from Florida State University (2010).
